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Wofford Terriers football

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The Wofford Terriers football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Wofford College located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as members of the Southern Conference (SoCon). Wofford's first football team was fielded in 1889. The team plays its home games at the 13,000 seat Gibbs Stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Josh Conklin is the current head coach for the Terriers.

History

Wofford moved from Division II to join the Division I-AA Southern Conference in the 1996–97 season. Since then, Wofford has won 7 Southern Conference Championships, and received bids to the FCS Playoffs 10 times with the most recent bid coming in 2019. Wofford is typically one of the strongest teams in the Southern Conference every year. Wofford's best finish since moving from Division II was a trip to the National Semi-finals at Delaware in 2003, where they fell 24–9. Mike Ayers, Wofford's winningest and most honored coach who served as head coach for thirty years, retired following the 2017 season, when Wofford made it to the national quarterfinals and finished #8 in the national polls. In recent years, Wofford's football and other athletic teams have finished near the top in the country in APR, which measures athletic performance of athletes. Numerous football players have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Classifications

Conference memberships

Conference championships

Wofford has won seven conference championships, three outright and four shared.

† denotes co–champions

Bowl game appearances

Playoff appearances

NCAA Division I-AA/FCS

The Terriers have appeared in the I-AA/FCS playoffs ten times with an overall record of 9–10.

NCAA Division II

The Terriers have appeared in the Division II playoffs two times with an overall record of 0–2.

NAIA

The Terriers appeared in the NAIA playoffs one time. Their combined record was 1–1.

Wofford vs. in-state NCAA Division I schools

Notable former players

Yearly results

Future non-conference opponents

Announced schedules as of July 9, 2024.[4]

References

  1. ^ Wofford College Athletics Brand Book 2023. January 1, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  2. ^ Hoffer, Richard. "The Franchise". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  3. ^ "2023 Football Media Guide (PDF)" (PDF). Wofford College Athletics. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  4. ^ "Wofford Terriers Football Future Schedules". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved November 19, 2023.

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